Taliban Threaten To Kill Malala Yousafzai For 'Criticising Islam'

A year after Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head for promoting education for girls in Pakistan, a spokesman for the Taliban has threatened her life again and insisted the organisation would “feel proud killing her”.

Shaidullah Shahid, of the Pakistan Taliban issued the death threat two days before the 16-year-old releases her autobiography I Am Malala.

He said: "If someone apostatises like this woman did by allying with the Americans and saying her favourite person is (Barack) Obama and that she does not want the Sharia or hijab and wants to live under a secular state, she has put herself in a very precarious situation.”

Malala was only 11 when she started documenting how difficult it was to get an education: "I dreamt of a country where education would prevail," she wrote.

Her anonymous blog, first published by BBC Urdu, documented Taliban atrocities committed in Pakistan’s Swat Valley and saw the schoolgirl receive international praise.